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Best coin / clad detector?
- Thread starter mrmerck
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Light, fast, simple and good battery life, that is if you are swinging for lots of coins to the tune of over 100 per day. Though I dont have one, the AT Pro is getting favorable reviews, and its water proof to 10' which allows a person to hunt in the pouring rain, which you will want to do if you are a serious park hunter/totlotter...(you have the whole place to yourself in this weather)
I have the F70, and it is absolutely killer for this type of hunting, but not waterproof. Great balance and battery life. If you want to become a super clad stabber, fast target aquisition and retrieval are a must. Its a real run and gun style of hunting, great excersize, and very much fun! There will be others showing up that have more experience than I have. This is a good topic to beat to death!
Mud
I have the F70, and it is absolutely killer for this type of hunting, but not waterproof. Great balance and battery life. If you want to become a super clad stabber, fast target aquisition and retrieval are a must. Its a real run and gun style of hunting, great excersize, and very much fun! There will be others showing up that have more experience than I have. This is a good topic to beat to death!
Mud
Flintstone
Well-known member
I was thinking about the Platinum detector for just that, coin running. Dose anyone know if it will get a dime a say 7"0r 8" deepth? Here in east Kentucky some dirt will let coins go deep. Even totlot that have been refilled have coins at 7". Thanks Flintstone
TerraDigger
New member
Teknetics Omega with its elongated stock concentric coil. Also has the option for the 5" (killer depth) & 11" DD coils.
Go get yourself a Tesoro Golden uMax if you are a coin shooter. It the best out there I've ever used.
Very light weight, excellent construction, lifetime warranty.
High tones for copper pennies, dimes, quarters and other silver and clad coins. The only high tone junk I ever dug were crushed aluminum cans.
The only coins you won't get on the high tone are nickels and "zincolns". If you want those, you'll be digging pulltabs too.
Most screw caps give off a distinctive sound so you can easily avoid them,
There's my 2 cents. Good luck on your choice and have fun!
Very light weight, excellent construction, lifetime warranty.
High tones for copper pennies, dimes, quarters and other silver and clad coins. The only high tone junk I ever dug were crushed aluminum cans.
The only coins you won't get on the high tone are nickels and "zincolns". If you want those, you'll be digging pulltabs too.
Most screw caps give off a distinctive sound so you can easily avoid them,
There's my 2 cents. Good luck on your choice and have fun!
TreasureHuntersSupply
New member
Thank You
jackintexas
New member
Yes, the AT Pro is a little nose heavy with the stock coil. But with the 5x8 DD it is the same weight and very good balance as the Ace 250.....Jack
froggy38383
New member
I would likely choose a Cibola for clad/coin hunting. Lightweight, good discrimination, easy to learn and use.
BH_Landstar_
New member
There are a few others too !
1/ The E-Trac -- it's a little heavy, but does the job
2/ Fishers F4 -- It's light and can compete.
3/ Fishers F5 -- One of the better F? units, has a lot of features and works really well as a jewelery hunter too.
4/ Minelab's X-Terra 705 -- lightweight, and again, feature packed, and a killer for jewelery hunting.
5/ Fishers Gold Bug Pro
It all depends on what you want for your $$$ that you are going to invest -- be it $300.00 or $1000.00. All it takes is 2 or 3 good finds and the detector is paid for (or if like me, just one find paid for my X-Terra 705 in a short time frame last year, see pics below --- 24K gold ring ! ) There is one snag tho ---- YOU GOT TO DIG ALL THE TARGETS / HITS !!!!!
1/ The E-Trac -- it's a little heavy, but does the job
2/ Fishers F4 -- It's light and can compete.
3/ Fishers F5 -- One of the better F? units, has a lot of features and works really well as a jewelery hunter too.
4/ Minelab's X-Terra 705 -- lightweight, and again, feature packed, and a killer for jewelery hunting.
5/ Fishers Gold Bug Pro
It all depends on what you want for your $$$ that you are going to invest -- be it $300.00 or $1000.00. All it takes is 2 or 3 good finds and the detector is paid for (or if like me, just one find paid for my X-Terra 705 in a short time frame last year, see pics below --- 24K gold ring ! ) There is one snag tho ---- YOU GOT TO DIG ALL THE TARGETS / HITS !!!!!
Critterhunter
New member
As much as I like my Minelab (Sovereign GT), Minelabs aren't very good fast clad hunters due to the slow swing rate. There are much less expensive machines on the market that can be swept fast and thus rack up faster clad totals with. If I was primarily a clad hunter I wouldn't buy an Etrac, Explorer, or Sovereign GT.
BH_Landstar_
New member
Critterhunter said:
OOO ..... I got to dis-agree with you on the E-Trac comment ! It's as good as all the other detectors that have been mentioned in this thread ! I've owned a few of these detectors in the last year, and I can say that the E-Trac is no slow coach when it's used to coin hunt, nor is the X-Terra range.
The top 3 detectors for me as coin hunters have been the F5, X-Terra 705 with the 18.75kHz 5x10 coil and the E-Trac (in no particular order).
Delaware Bill
Member
Have or have owned Whites Classic, XLT, M6, PI Pro, Tesoro Deleon, Minelab Xterra 70, Sovereign XS2A Pro, Quattro 4 MP, Fisher F4, Bounty Hunter Landstar. The only one that you can with any certainty differentiate between different coins is the Whites M6, with the 6x10 DD coil it is about the best coin/jewelery detector going. Excellent response time, excellent depth, real simple operation.